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Last week in Hong Kong, a multibillion-dollar game of chicken was being played out. Currency speculators--the kind of financial gamblers whose cold-bloodedness could freeze mercury at 10 paces--made a run at the Hong Kong dollar, essentially trying to force its value vs. the U.S. dollar lower by manipulating the supply. It's the type of monetary maneuvering that doesn't mean much to most of us. Yet had the speculators won--and the game isn't over--the economic damage could have been huge, and the already wobbly U.S. stock market would have understood the true...
...stick your tongue out at all the art critics and bypass world famous art museums. However, it can be a major pain to remember to bring home the bacon and not just go and crash in the home/hostel of your choosing. Why isn't there anyone bringing the hot chicken soup to your bedside...
Heston may fancy himself an American eagle, but he's really just a hypocritical chicken hawk. LITZI TREVINO HARTLEY Naperville...
...monument to Henry Perry, who brought barbecue to Kansas City. Since I had just suggested that the airport, which they called Kansas City International, be named after Arthur Bryant, perhaps the most distinguished of Perry's spiritual descendants, and that a major Missouri River bridge be named for Chicken Betty Lucas, the legendary pan-fryer, some people thought my suggestion about the fountain was the last straw...
...Moran's second novel, The World I Made for Her (Riverhead; 273 pages; $23.95), which delves into the bond between James Blatchley, a semicomatose New York City cop, and Nuala Riordan, his Irish-immigrant caregiver. Struck down (as the author himself was once) by a horrifically stubborn strain of chicken pox, the immobilized Blatchley has been rendered tongue-tied not by Cyrano-like shyness but by an emergency tracheotomy and an ominous respirator that he has nicknamed, Ken Kesey style, the Machine...